Boys Golf

Austin Fauser is feeling a little dangerous. The Clinton senior golfer won the Lower Peninsula Division 4 championship as a sophomore and tied for third last season. Now, having already committed to a college and with a host of medals and honors in his collection, Faus...

Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian ace Erik Fahlen Jr. fired a two-day 71-67-138 to win the individual championship at last weekend’s Lower Peninsula Division 4 Final at Forest Akers East, leading the Mustangs to their first team title since 1996 in earning the Mi...

The Flint Powers Catholic boys golf team gained plenty of experience playing after extensive weather delays this season. That experience paid major dividends during the second round of the Lower Peninsula Division 2 Finals on Saturday.

The Grosse Pointe South boys golf team had grown weary of coming up a few strokes short. After placing runners-up at the Lower Peninsula Division 1 Finals the past two years to Detroit Catholic Central, the Blue Devils finally broke through Saturday at The Meadows at G...

Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian junior Erik Fahlen should consider playing in rain more often. After all, it’s hard to imagine many better scores being turned in if there had been perfect weather on the second day of the Lower Peninsula Division 4 Boys Golf Fi...

It was fitting that the Lower Peninsula Division 3 Boys Golf Finals took place on the same day as the 150th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, because Hanover-Horton and Big Rapids had a photo finish. The two were tied after Friday’s first day at Fore...

This could be a weekend of coincidence as all four 2017 Lower Peninsula Boys Golf Finals runners-up are in position to take the most challenging last step and become MHSAA champions. Keep an eye on Grosse Pointe South, Flint Powers Catholic, Big Rapids and Grand Rapids...

A tie-breaker was needed to determine a team champion Thursday at the Upper Peninsula Division 3 Boys Golf Final. Cedarville and Ontonagon finished with 351 strokes apiece on this warm and humid day at Irish Oaks Golf Course.

Back-to-back Upper Peninsula Division 1 golf championships is a sweet payoff for the Escanaba boys golf team. The Eskymos were the top team again Thursday, after battling a difficult course at Sweetgrass Golf Club, an afternoon heavy downpour and rain delay and the top...

Trey Bociek found a pretty efficient way to get around Oak Crest Golf Course on Wednesday. The sophomore simply played bombs away off the tee, pounding his drives some 280 to 300 yards with deadly accuracy over the rolling, tree-lined 5,903 yards.

Team-building, and self-sacrifice for those teammates, are among the many lessons taught through educational athletics. Portland junior golfer Ethan Getchell has picked them up quickly.

While most high school golfers were spending this winter counting down the days until the snow melted, one Grand Rapids-area golfer was measuring his game against the top players around the world. Bradley Smithson, a junior at Ada Forest Hills Eastern, was invited to t...

Golf, barbeque and honoring Martin Luther King Jr. are on the agenda for Kalamazoo Christian’s boys golf team during spring break. The six varsity players, coach Brian Seifert and their families are headed to Memphis next week.

After coming up three strokes short of an MHSAA title last season, the seniors on the Jackson Lumen Christi boys golf team were determined to leave Big Rapids with a championship trophy this weekend. That determination was put to the test on both days of the Lower Peni...

There couldn’t have been three more appropriate words for Clarkston Everest Collegiate boys golf coach David Smith to describe the past, present and future of his golf program at the moment. “It’s all good,” Smith said.

For the past three seasons, the biggest drama with Detroit Catholic Central’s boys golf team hasn’t been whether or not it would win tournaments it competed in. Instead, it was a matter of how much the Shamrocks would win by and which player in its loaded l...

St. Johns boys golf coach Paul Sternburgh referred to it as a storybook ending. And that’s exactly how it will read for a man heading into retirement and his band of departing seniors.

Hailing from a school of just 90 students, Carney-Nadeau senior Hunter Eichhorn added one more statewide accomplishment last week by becoming the first in MHSAA boys golf history to win four Finals individual championships. Eichhorn shot a 66 at Irish Oaks Golf course ...

Three reigning MHSAA Lower Peninsula golf champions entered Regionals last week ranked No. 1 in their respective divisions by the state coaches association. But that also means there are 17 more teams in each of those divisions revved up to surprise at this weekend&rsq...

Claudette Brown couldn’t help but hold back tears Thursday. But the fourth-year coach had good reason to feel emotional. Her first class of seniors on the St. Ignace boys golf team had just won the Upper Peninsula Division 2 Final title at George Young Golf Cours...